St. Elmo's fire
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St. Elmo's fire is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a rod-like object such as a mast, spire, chimney, or animal horn in an atmospheric electric field
Illustration of St. Elmo's fire on a ship at sea
St. Elmo's fire on the flaps and flap track fairings of an A350 while going through a cumulonimbus cloud
Ball lightning
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Ball lightning is a rare and unexplained phenomenon described as luminescent spherical objects that vary from pea-sized to several meters in diameter. Though usually associated with thunderstorms, the
St. Elmo's fire
…Elmo – commonly shortened to santelmo – is a bad omen or a flying spirit in Filipino folklore, although the description for santelmo is more similar to ball lightning than St. Elmo's fire. There are various indigenous names for santelmo which has existed before the term santelmo was coined. The term santelmo originated…
Ball lightning entering via the chimney (1886)
A demonstration of the water discharge experiment